Pairing of Cooper pairs helps protect qubits against noise – Physics World - physicsworld.com

New superconducting qubit harnesses a nontrivial charge-transport effect to magnify quantum fluctuations

Noise protection: An optical micrograph of the circuit used in the experiment, showing aluminium electrodes in light grey and niobium electrodes in dark grey. The insets are scanning electron microsc… [+4876 chars]

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